There are several North Korean transport companies and oil refineries. Big mining companies extract coal and lignite in the provinces of Pyeonganbuk, Pyeongannam and Hamgyeongbuk; iron ore in Musan and Unryul; the copper at Hyesan; lead and zinc near Dancheon and Gowon. Important is magnesium (in Dancheon, Daehung and Yongyang), of which the country has vast reserves. Significant is the steel-metallurgical sector (plants in Cheongjin, Seongjin, Gangseon, Cheollima). They are also extracted in large quantities gold, silver, tungsten and molybdenum. Large chemical complexes are in operation, mainly producing fertilizers, as well as mechanical and textile plants.
Since 2002, the "special zone" of Gaeseong has been active, on the border with South Korea, where mixed production activities have been established. The "special tourist area" of Mount Geumgang is also active, which has been added since 2007 to Gaeseong, both frequented by South Korean tourists.
The trade balance is net of passive: the main economic partner is China.
The Rothschild and Rockefeller have also tried to avoid bankruptcy themselves with the takeover of North Korea. North Korea is the site of a vast treasure trove of precious minerals and other subsoil resources around the Sacred Mountain Paektu, say the sources of Asian secret services. It can now be confirmed that the French branch of the Rothschild Family has staged the assassination of a fake Kim Yong Nam in Malaysia recently, to discredit Kim Jong Un and remove it from power.
They hoped to replace him with a fake older son Kim Yong Nam (Kim Han Sol) who hoped to present as a legitimate heir to the Korean throne. Asian secret societies were not fooled by anything and said they were the Rothschilds, not the CIA, at the base of this failed plot, say the sources of the White Dragon Society.
Rex Tillerson, for his part, publicly threatened to take over North Korea with military force on behalf of his Rockefeller bosses.
For this reason, North Korea is plagued by threats and wants to hit the Guam island with medium-range ballistic missiles. The Washington Post has explained why Pyongyang threatens the small island state in the Pacific Ocean.
Guam is an island of the Marianne archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, with non-incorporated US state status. But the island is primarily a strategic outpost of US naval and aviation forces. Here is a division of nuclear submarines, special forces and strategic bombers. "This week, two B-1B Lancer bombers from South Dakota were sent to South Dakota to fly flights to South Korean and Japanese aircraft," he writes. At the end of July, in response to the North Korean missile test, all planes in Guam were put on alert.
Guam is home to THAAD's missile defense systems.
According to the newspaper, about 6,000 US soldiers are stationed in Guam. The contingent is being strengthened to counter the growing threats in the region.
"The fact that Kim Jong-un has focused its attention on Guam is not surprising to its 160,000 inhabitants," says President of the University of Guam Robert F. Underwood, interviewed by the WP. "Whenever war winds blow in the region, they inevitably concern Guam," he stressed.
Threats, mutual accusations and tension to the stars, with the ghost of a nuclear war back to wander around the international community. Iron Arm Continues between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump with the Pyongyang regime threatening unprecedented middle-range missiles ready to hit the US base in Guam, and the US president declaring ready to use "fire and fury" if caused.
It is not new to the fact that the situation between Washington and Pyongyang has plummeted in recent weeks after North Korea showed the muscles, testing intercontinental ballistic missiles and pushing Trump and the UN to impose new and tougher sanctions on 'hermit kingdom'.
But what does Kim Jong-un want and why does he have so much with the United States?
It is from the beginning of the year that North Korea heads bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles, showing that they possess the technology needed to launch a nuclear missile capable of centering US territory. For their part, the US has responded to the threats posed by Pyongyang by imposing heavy sanctions on the country, with damages of about one billion dollars. Sanctions that Kim Jong-un did not digest, saying he was prepared to pay him dear to the Americans.
HOW DO WE HAVE GOING HERE?
To explain how the relations between the two countries have precipitated, it is necessary to make a leap forward and return to the years of World War II when Korea, which was at that time part of the Japanese Empire, is occupied by the United States and the Soviet Union. The two superpowers divide the peninsula into two zones. The border along the 38th parallel separates the North of Korea occupied by the Soviets from the South, an area of influence by Americans. In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea, triggering the Korean War, lasting from 1950 to 1953.
At the end of the conflict a demilitarized zone is created to separate the two states. The tension between the two countries, including a peace treaty, has remained high. Since then, the United States and North Korea have been isolated. While other countries like China become major economic, political and military powers, North Korea is isolated from the international community. The United States also hoped for a nuclear denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, condemning the Pyongyang regime and its nuclear program several times. But North Korea continues to develop its own nuclear technology. According to 'The Independent', doing so hoping to force the United States to negotiate with them.
WHAT WILL PYONGYANG AND WHAT WANT TO USA?
For them, the United States, hope to overcome a North Korean attack on South Korea, possibly requiring US intervention. North Korea, for its part, aims to develop and prosper while maintaining its independence and traditions. Pyongyang wants the military exercises between South Korea and the United States, which they see as acts of aggression, to cease immediately.
WHAT IS TRUMP?
During the election campaign, Trump is keen to meet Kim Jong-un to try to defeat an imminent nuclear crisis. But on April 15, during the parade for the 105th anniversary of the founder of the People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un warns the United States not to take any provocative measures in the region because the country says, is ready to face any threat. " On the same day, North Korea attempts to launch a missile but fails.
US Vice President Mike Pence warns Pyongyang that "patience is over" and that the United States is ready to "defeat any attack," while Trump rises in June, admitting that "North Korea's regime is a source of huge problems "and that the priority to curb Kim Jong-un's plans is to try the road to Chinese influence.
A new escalation of tensions is recorded with Otto Warmbier death, a US student who was repatriated coma in the United States after 17 months of detention in North Korea. Trump bubbles the case as an absolute scandal, defining "brutal" Pyongyang's regime. North Korean authorities denounce, instead, "a denigrating campaign of the United States," compared Trump to Hitler. On June 30, during a meeting with President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, at the White House, the US president reiterated that "the era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime is over" and that Seoul, Tokyo and other partner countries, work on a series of economic and diplomatic measures to protect the interests of US allies from the "threat" posed by North Korea.
On July 5, after the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on the day of the United States national holiday in the Japan Sea, Trump, addressing Kim Jong-un, writes on Twitter: "This guy has nothing better to do in his life ? " promising a stern response to North Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-calls for an intervention by the UN Security Council. Russia and China also launch a joint initiative to resolve the conflict in the Korean peninsula and stop the Pyongyang nuclear program.
On July 25, Pyongyang again threatens Washington announcing a nuclear attack against "the heart of the United States" if they were to try to change the regime after CIA director Mike Pompeo's statements, which seemed to suggest a regime change in the realm hermit'. A few days later, the United States, after Pyongyang missile tests, sends two B-1B bombers in the skies of Korea, while August 3 announces that from the first September to September US citizens will be banned from going to North Korea.
The situation finally gets complicated on August 5th. The United States, through the White House National Security Adviser, H. R. McMaster, announces that they are preparing all options to counter the threat from North Korea, including that of "a preventive war." On the same day, the United Nations Security Council approves new sanctions against Pyongyang, further restricting trade and investment opportunities for the country. Sanctions that should deprive North Korea of estimated annual resources in a billion dollars.
What's happening between the United States and North Korea, which this week has produced titles like "Tensions in Korea" and "North Korea threatens the United States"?
"This week, North Korean leader Kim Jung-un ordered his subordinates to prepare for a missile attack to the United States.
He was shown at a command center in front of a map hanging on the wall with the bold and unlikely title 'Plans to Attack the US Territory'. A few days before his generals bragged about developing a "Korean style" nuclear weapon that could be used by a large-scale missile. "
The United States knows well that North Korea's statements are not supported by a military power sufficient to materialize its rhetoric threats, but tension seems to increase in every way. What is happening?
I have to go back a bit to explain the situation.
Since the end of the Korean War, 60 years ago, the Government of the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea (RPDCN or North Korea) repeatedly repeated the same four proposals to the United States:
1. A peace treaty to put an end to the Korean War;
2. The reunification of Korea "temporally" divided into North and South since 1945;
3. Ending South Korea's US occupation and suspension of one-month-long one-year combat simulations between the United States and North Korea;
4. Bilateral negotiations between Washington and Pyogyang to end the tensions in Korea's peninsula.
Over the years the United States and their South Korean protectorate have always refused any of the proposals. Consequently, the peninsula remained extremely unstable during the decade of 1950.
Now it has come to the point that Washington used its annual war simulations, which began in early March, to organize a nuclear attack simulation to North Korea, raising two B-2 Stealth bombers with capacity nuclear sector in the region on March 28. Three days later, the White House sent in South Korea "invisible" F-22 Raptor airplanes, with tension increasing even more.
Let's see what's behind these four proposals:
1. The United States does not want to sign a peace treaty to put an end to the Korean War. They only accepted an armistice, which is a temporal cessation of combat by mutual agreement. It was considered that the armistice signed on July 27, 1953 would become a peace treaty when "a last-minute peace agreement had been reached". The lack of a treaty means war can restart at any time, North Korea does not want a war with the United States, the state with more military power in history. He wants a treaty of peace.
2. The two Koreas exist as a result of an agreement between the Soviet Union (which divides a border with Korea and which during the Second World War helped the northern part of the country to liberate itself from Japan) and the US occupied the southern part. Although socialism prevailed northward and capitalism in the south, the division did not have to be permanent. The two great powers would have to retire within two years and allow the country to reunite. Russia did so, the United States did not. Then came the devastating three-year war in the 1950s. Since that date, North Korea has made several different proposals to end a division that lasts from 1945. I think the most recent one is "a country, two systems." This means that even if the two sides were reunited, the south would continue to be capitalist and the socialist north. It would be difficult but not impossible. Washington does not want it. Seek to take over the entire peninsula to bring its military "umbrella" directly to the border with China, and also with Russia.
3. Since the end of the war, Washington has maintained between 25,000 and 40,000 soldiers in South Korea. Along with the fleets, the bases of nuclear bombers and US troop installations very close to the peninsula, these soldiers continue to be a memento of two . One is that "we can crush the north" and the other is "South Korea belongs to us". Pyongyang sees it this way (and much more since President Obama has decided to target Asia). Although this move has economic and commercial concerns, its main purpose is to increase the already considerable military power in the region to intensify threats to China and North Korea.
4. The Korean War was basically a conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and the United States. That is, as far as other United Nations countries took part in the war, the United States took charge of it, dominated the struggle against North Korea and were responsible for the deaths of millions of Koreans north of the 38th parallel divide. It is entirely logical that Pyongyang tries to negotiate directly with Washington to resolve divergences and reach a peaceful agreement that leads to a treaty. The United States has systematically refused.
These four points are not new. They were set in the decade of 1950.
In 1970, I visited the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea on three occasions, for a total of eight weeks, as the US Guardian reported. Every time, during the talks with leaders, I was asked for a peace treaty, the withdrawal of US troops in the South and direct negotiations. Today the situation is the same. The United States did not drop an inch.
Why not?
Washington wants to get rid of the communist regime before allowing peace to prevail on the peninsula. Other than "a state, two systems"! You want a state that promises loyalty ... guess who?
Meanwhile, the existence of a "belligerent" North Korea justifies Washington turning south with an authentic ring of firepower in the northeast of the Pacific close enough to burn China, though not entirely. A "dangerous" Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is also useful to keep Japan within the orbit of the United States and is another excuse for the previously peaceful Japan boast of its already formidable arsenal.
Regarding this I want to quote an article by Christine Hong and Hyung Le published on February 15 in Foreign Policy in Focus:
"Defining North Korea as the main threat to the region's security hides the false nature of US President Barack Obama's politics in the region, in fact the identity of what his advisers call 'strategic patience' on the one hand and, on the other hand, the military attitude and the alliance with the regional hawks that have been reached. Examining Obama's aggressive policy over North Korea and its consequences is crucial to understanding why military demonstration demonstrations (politics by other means, in the words of Karl von Klausevitz) are the only means of communication that Korea's North seems to have with the United States at this time. "
Here is another quotation from Brian Becker of the coalition ANSWER:
"The Pentagon and the South Korean army today (and over the past year) have organized great war simulations that reproduce the invasion and bombardment of North Korea. Few, in the United States, know the real situation. The work of the war propaganda machine is made to make sure that the US people do not join in demanding that they end the dangerous and threatening actions of the Pentagon in the Korean Peninsula. The propaganda campaign is now in full swing as the Pentagon climbs the intensification scale in the most militarized part of the planet.
North Korea is considered the provocateur and aggressor every time he claims to have the right to defend his country and to have the ability to do so. Even when the Pentagon simulates the nuclear destruction of a country that has already tried to bomb down to the Stone Age, corporation media ownership characterizes this extremely provocative act as a sign of determination and a defensive medium. "
Another quote from Stratfor, a private intelligence service that you usually mean:
"Much of North Korea's behavior can be considered rhetorical though it is not clear, however, how far Pyongyang wants to go if it continues to be unable to force negotiations through belligerence."
Here we take the goal of starting the negotiations.
Pyongyang's "bellicosity" is almost wholly verbally (maybe several decibels too high for our ears), but North Korea is a small country in difficult circumstances that reminds of the extraordinary brutality Washington has inflicted on the land in the decade of 1950 Millions of Koreans died. US "saturation bombings" were criminals. North Korea is determined to die fighting if this will happen again, but hopes that its military (military) preparation will prevent war and lead to negotiations and a peace treaty.
His great and well-trained army is defensive. The end of the missiles that it is building and talking about nuclear weapons is, basically, scaring the wolf on the doorstep.
In the short term, Kim Jong-un's burning rhetoric is the direct response to the United States and South Korea's monthly run simulation of this year's life, which he interprets as a possible prelude to another war. Kim's long-term goal is to create a sufficiently disturbing crisis because the United States finally comes to bilateral negotiations, and possibly a peace treaty and the outbreak of foreign troops. Later on, one might think of some form of reunification, in negotiations between the north and south.
I suspect that the current confrontation will calm down once the war simulations will end. The Obama administration is not going to create the conditions for a peace treaty, especially now that the White House's attention appears to be absorbed in East Asia where it perceives a possible danger to its geopolitical supremacy.
The Korean situation is much more complex than the Western media describe, more interested in the picturesque, sensational and commonplace than in deepening.
Relations between China and North Korea are not good-neighborly, if not even ironic alliance, as is normally believed. If China helps the CN, it is for purely pragmatic reasons: if North Korean imploded, hundreds of thousands of refugees and a civilian revolution / civil war would be home at home. The CNC is a scraper, certainly not a resource. China would have everything to gain from Korean unification. It is by far the main trading partner of South Korea and a united Korea will no longer need to "accommodate" US troops. So it would be in the interest of China, which is certainly not happy to have American bases a few hundred kilometers from Shanghai (and there are another 13 in Japan).
South Korea (CdS) has the highest suicide rate in the world. It is at the top of the rankings also for the number of hours worked (the Greeks were recently ranked second) and by children's unhappiness among the "developed" nations (Yonsei University study). This is a maniacally competitive society, from nursery school (Japan follows the same model but is a little less obsessive). Nick Connelly, an English teacher in South Korea, shortly before departing, when the escalation of threats and counter-threats between North Korea and the United States was already underway, asked his students what their feelings were: six students ten respondents said they hoped for a North Korean attack because they wanted to die, they did not do it anymore. Connelly reports that it is a widespread phenomenon in Korean schools, where pressure is unbelievable (Nick Connelly, The West looks more concerned about North Korea than most Koreans, Guardian, April 14, 2013)
Most South Korean (54%) would like US troops to be repatriated. Only 16% would like to remain on a permanent basis
If Americans want peace because they do military maneuvers a few miles from North Korean borders that include the scenario of an invasion of North Korea? Is it the best way to avoid intensifying suspects, mistrust, fear and aggression in the Korean peninsula?
According to a survey conducted in 2006 on behalf of Jung Ang Ilbo, a major South Korean newspaper, 54 percent of North Korean deserters living in South Korea said they wanted to return to North Korea if they had warranted not being punished . That is why the North government has established an automatic grace policy. So the rate of deserters falling in North Korea is growing. This is the result of the discrimination suffered by South Koreans. Which reiterates that freedom is not all and is not enough to make society worthy of being considered democratic. Feeling part of a community is essential. Who thinks the regime wants to use the atomic bomb does not know what it says: it would be its end.
Those who wish the hard line do not know what they say: the Seoul conurbation (20 million inhabitants) is about 40 km from the border. In the wake of war, South Korea's capital would be destroyed in less than an hour by a storm of artillery bullets. Estimates speak of a number ranging between one thousand and 30,000 shots per minute (not intercepted). It's not a video game, there are hundreds of thousands of lives in the game, and even a psychopath would realize that the ruin of one of the world's largest economic centers is not in its interest.
South Korea has completely changed its attitude towards North Korea since 2008, with the presidency of Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-Bak, a conservative who has put an end to the tiring policy that had led to the restoration of flights commerce, works to reopen the Pyongyang-Seoul railway line, to tourism, the birth of the Kaesong industrial complex, and the reunification permits of the families of the south and north, separated from the war. Now North Korea has little or nothing to lose, and it is no surprise that North Koreans cling to the leader (racist caricatures and insults do not help in that sense). If that was the goal then it is a full success.
The first truly democratic government in South Korea dates back to 1992 (and every president was convicted of corruption). Formerly imprisoned, tortured, massacred (Gwangju, 1980), the dissidents disappeared, without the West being disturbed more than enough. Even today a law on national security makes it possible for them to be arrested for receiving a twitter from North Korea.
Ex South Korea US ambassador has severely criticized the continuity of US administration's approach to North Korea's isolation policy, which urges the latter more and more towards "paranoia" mode - the healthiest alternative of mind is the negotiation: "For those who are willing to listen, North Korea has clarified that it wants to discuss a peace process leading to a peace treaty. A peace process needs a basis of mutual trust, a lack of trust between Washington and Pyongyang at the time ".
In 2015, the Obama administration rejected the Chinese proposal that the North Korean nuclear program would be interrupted in exchange for the suspension of US and South Korean military activities in the region. Japan and South Korea have also refused this proposal.
When Beijing suggested Trump administration to conduct similar negotiations under the same conditions, it was replied that before doing so, North Korea has to suspend the nuclear program. At that point it comes spontaneously to wonder what would remain to negotiate.
As we have already experienced in the Middle East, Western diplomacy continues to be unable to handle the complexity of the new geopolitical arrangements, there is only hope that this will not lead to a nuclear conflict for the great families interests.
Open your eyes, stay tuned and do not fall into media traps.
Sincerly,
